The question "How can I title my hot rod?" comes up frequently on this board.

cboy specifically mentioned this in this thread, but I'm sure others have noticed the same thing.

We can handle this by writing an article, or by making a links page, an FAQ, or by various other methods. However, this time, I'd like to try something new: a "wiki".

A wiki is similar to a discussion on a bulletin board. However, in a wiki, everyone works together to edit the same "post". It's very easy to do. Some of you may be familiar with Wikipedia, the largest wiki on the web today.

Anyway, if you have any information on titling/registering hot rods, street rods, or custom cars in your state, region, or country, please add to the wiki page.

Has anyone thought of contacting Street Rodder Magazine? They are in the middle of a series of articles on titling street rods and they might give us permission to post either a link or the actual article if we "give them the credit".

That article is just a synopsis of their multi part article that's in the mag. Last month and this month were the first two parts and they will be publishing two more parts in the next two issues which will go through the process step by step (in California) including all the forms etc.

Don't know if they would let us re-print the articles but it might be worth the time to ask.

The wiki uses a special copyright license that means that whatever is legally inserted into it becomes "free knowledge" -- it can be freely copy-pasted and shared. A magazine granting such free publishing privileges would be extremely unlikely. Even if they wanted to, they probably have pre-existing licensing policies that make it impossible for them to do so.

However, if the article is available in full on the net, we can place a link to it in the wiki page -- this is something that is extremely common on wiki pages.

Ideally, we should read the article, and use it as one of the references for a larger resource that will subsume the article. We can even quote small portions of text from it. However, anything more than that would constitute copyright violations or plagiarism.

My thought is that we have the publishing power to produce superior information to the mags anyway.

This experiment is going very well so far. We have an excellent section on Wisconsin hot rod registration (thanks cboy). And, we have information on Ohio and Texas now too. If we can continue at this rate, we will have a very valuable resource.

I've also added some more tech-oriented wiki pages that we can use as tutorials or how-to's. Here they are:

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